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Turf Toe

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Turf Toe
A ligamentous sprain of the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint of the great toe affecting athletes in various sports—baseball, (American) football, soccer, rugby, etc.—played on artificial turf
Management Ice, NSAIDS, immobilisation, rest, footwear designed for artificial turf, increased stiffness of shoe plus taping help to prevent hyperextension or hyperflexion of the MTP of great toe

turf toe
Sports medicine A ligamentous sprain of the metatarsophalangeal–MTP joint of the great toe affecting athletes in various sports–baseball, football, soccer played on artificial turf Clinical Commonly presents as an intensely painful, swollen, red, accompanied by acute flexor and extensor tendinitis Treatment Ice, NSAIDS, immobilization, rest, footwear designed for artificial turf, ↑ stiffness of shoe plus taping help to prevent hyperextension or hyperflexion of the MTP of great toe. See Sports dermatology.


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ART: PHOTO CUTLINE: Turf toe forced Assumption's David Canney to the sidelines last season, making him even hungrier to get on the field this year.
Wide receiver Ronald Johnson continues to have a slight limp from turf toe, although it does not seem to affect is play.
But there are also nagging doubts about Titans' QB Steve McNair, who is suffering from turf toe and is still feeling the effects of his injury sustained against Pittsburgh in November, just nine weeks after back surgery.
 
 
 
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